The
main purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of
oxidation in vitro on the biochemical properties
of myofibrillar protein isolates (MPIs) from beef muscles. MPIs were
incubated at 4 °C for 24 h with hydroxyl-radical-generating systems
consisting of 0.01 mM FeCl3 and 0.1 mM ascorbic acid plus
0, 0.2, 1, 5, 10, and 20 mM hydrogen peroxide. The results showed
that oxidation caused drastically structural changes in bovine MPIs.
The carbonyl content, the surface hydrophobicity, and the particle
diameter of MPIs were significantly increased, while the free sulfhydryl
group content was dramatically decreased with increasing hydrogen
peroxide concentrations. Oxidation caused the protein aggregations
through cross-linking between proteins and amino acids. Proteomics
study identified protein sites in which they were easy to be oxidized.
Oxidized catalytic activities and binding sites of enzymes that were
susceptible to oxidation were also identified.
This study reports on a comprehensive comparison of the effects of soy and meat proteins given at the recommended level on physiological markers of metabolic syndrome and the hepatic transcriptome. Male rats were fed semi-synthetic diets for 1 wk that differed only regarding protein source, with casein serving as reference. Body weight gain and adipose tissue mass were significantly reduced by soy but not meat proteins. The insulin resistance index was improved by soy, and to a lesser extent by meat proteins. Liver triacylglycerol contents were reduced by both protein sources, which coincided with increased plasma triacylglycerol concentrations. Both soy and meat proteins changed plasma amino acid patterns. The expression of 1571 and 1369 genes were altered by soy and meat proteins respectively. Functional classification revealed that lipid, energy and amino acid metabolic pathways, as well as insulin signaling pathways were regulated differently by soy and meat proteins. Several transcriptional regulators, including NFE2L2, ATF4, Srebf1 and Rictor were identified as potential key upstream regulators. These results suggest that soy and meat proteins induce distinct physiological and gene expression responses in rats and provide novel evidence and suggestions for the health effects of different protein sources in human diets.
In vitro digestion products of proteins were compared among beef, pork, chicken, and fish. Gastric and jejunal contents from the rats fed these meat proteins were also compared. Cooked pork, beef, chicken, and fish were homogenized and incubated with pepsin alone or followed by trypsin. The digestion products with molecular weights of less than 3000 Da were identified with MALDI‐TOF‐MS and nano‐LC‐MS/MS. Gastric and jejunal contents obtained from the rats fed the four meat proteins for 7 days were also analyzed. After pepsin digestion, pork, and beef samples had a greater number of fragments in similarity than chicken and fish samples, but the in vitro digestibility was the greatest (p < 0.05) for pork and the smallest for beef samples. After trypsin digestion, the species differences were less pronounced (p > 0.05). A total of 822 and 659 peptides were identified from the in vitro and in vivo digestion products, respectively. Our results could interpret for the differences in physiological functions after the ingestion of different species of meat.
Meat-diet-induced
changes in gut microbiota are often accompanied
with the development of various metabolic and inflammatory disorders.
The exact biochemical mechanism underlying these effects is not well
elucidated. This study aims to evaluate how meat proteins in high-fat
diets affect tryptophan metabolism in rats. The high-chicken-protein
(HFHCH) or high-pork-protein (HFHP) diets increased levels of skatole
and indole in cecal and colonic contents, feces, and subcutaneous
adipose tissue. The HFHCH and HFHP diets also increased the abundance
of Lactobacillus, the Family XIII AD3011 group, and Desulfovibrio in the cecum and colon, which may be involved
in the production of skatole and indole. Additionally, high-meat-protein
diets induced lower activity of skatole- and indole-metabolizing enzyme
CYP2E1 in liver compared with low-meat-protein diets. This work highlights
the negative impact of high meat proteins on physiological responses
by inducing dysbiosis of gut microbiota and tryptophan metabolism.
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